Joining Judy Kuhn (Fosca) and Rebecca Luker (Clara) in the company of Passion, which will be directed by Eric Schaeffer, are Phillip Goodwin (Dr. Tambouri), Bob McDonald (Lombardi), Lawrence Redmond (Barri), Daniel Felton (Torasso), Michael Forrest (Rizzolli), Ty Hreben (Ludovic), Teresa Reid (Mother), Stephen Schmidt (Father) and Tracy Lynn Olivera (Mistress). This Sondheim musical about a physically unattractive woman's obsessive love for a soldier features a book by James Lapine. Sunday in the Park with George, the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical based on the life and works of French impressionist George Seurat, has recently added Jason Gilbert (Franz), Tracy Lynn Olivera (Celeste I), Sherri Edelen (Celeste II), Michel Forrest (Boatman) and Bob McDonald (Louis) to its star-studded cast. Originally produced on Broadway with Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, the Kennedy Center production will also star Melissa Errico as Dot, Raul Esparza as George, Florence Lacey as Yvonne and Donna Migliaccio as the Nurse.

The Kennedy Center's summer Sondheim Celebration of six in repertory works by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim sold more than $600,000 in tickets in its first day of single-ticket sales Feb. 11, a spokesperson confirmed.

Sondheim shows prompted $639,000 in sales, making it a single-day box office record at the Kennedy Center. Tiki Davies of the Kennedy Center told Playbill On-Line about $400,000 worth of tickets were sold in its second day, Feb. 12.

"We're delighted with the response," Davies said, adding that the sales were hot in-person, by phone and by web. The way tickets are selling for the May to-August fest, the nonprofit giant's festival will likely be completely sold out. About half the tickets are gone, Davies said. Subscribers, patrons and groups got first crack at seats to Sunday in the Park With George, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, Passion and A Little Night Music, prior to Feb. 11. Total sales so far, three months before the May 10 start of the fest, exceed $3 million. Sweeney Todd, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Christine Baranski, is the biggest seller. It begins May 10.

The Associated Press reported that 25 percent of ticket sales so far were from theatregoers who live outside of Washington, DC, with 13 percent of sales from New York area audiences. Tickets were bought by people from 41 states and Australia, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

"They're not just buying one [show]," Davies said. "They're buying two or more."

That's exactly the goal of the series, Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser previously said. He wanted the Sondheim Celebration to be a kind of living exhibition that people could drink in, to get a sense of the shape and variety of one artist's career.